The SHSBC Is Dead

ASHO Day and Foundation have been “combined” into one org. AOSHUK and SH Fdn have also been “combined” into one org.

Never in a million years would any scientologist have expected that TWO Orgs specifically created by L. Ron Hubbard would be closed in the “golden era of scientology.”

Unthinkable.

But like many of the other blasphemies that have been wrought in recent years, it was hidden in plain sight with loud pronouncements of “greatest expansion ever.”

And then there is this: Saint Hills NO LONGER DELIVER THE BRIEFING COURSE.

And this has NOT been broadly announced as not even David Copperfield could pull off making this appear to be a stroke of brilliance.

It’s an ugly, dark secret that nobody is talking about. But if you don’t believe me, call ASHO Reception and say you are interested in the Briefing Course and would like to start. See what they tell you (“We are not delivering the Briefing Course, but come on in and do the Purif…”)

Would any scientologist ever have believed that the American (or European or Australian or the “St Hill”) “St. Hill” Organization would not deliver the “St Hill Special Briefing Course”?

I guess Miscavige has to go through and ensure the pronunciation/punctuation is all correct on the Briefing Course lectures and is stuck because he cannot find voice talent that sounds enough like L. Ron Hubbard to be able to correct the lectures? This is a course that is primarily “LRH lectures”. Are they really going to “fix them” for GAG III?

What sparked this post was the promotional piece below.

To anyone familiar with St Hills over the years, the omission of the SHSBC is quite startling.

And the sheeple just keep on buying it.

My Deposition

Tony Ortega has posted the transcript of my deposition in the Garcia case. It is not especially enlightening as it was aimed at seeking dead agent material for the HBO Documentary and little about the case. But some may be interested in reading it.

Comments

It doesn’t actually say they stopped delivery of the SHSBC, although one can infer it since they’re promoting Academy Levels and Survial Rundown (WTF? They’re a Class V org now?!). I guess they just can’t confront saying something like “We’re sorry; we screwed up; there’s no more Briefing Course, but we’re still accepting donations. Besides, you don’t really need us anyways as donating large sums of money to the IAS can produce case gain.” I wonder what LRH would say about that?

Nobody will ever get from alone .. only with himself .. a realisation of a SerFac .. so, on a higher state he will know about a GPM .. but he will never clear that with himself .. everybody will stay stuck with his own decisions .. not accepting the opposite ..

But you can learn to do that .. anyway .. the path from LRH was in this way .. he lost his own way, but it tells you that it is a hard way to go .. it is a hard way to be really yourself ..

Independent Scientolgists who’ve listened to all the SHSBC tapes and done all the auditing actions as students or interns or in HGCs or as Field Auditors, ought to have their history collected, and summarized on their opinions of having done that full course.

I’m not a Scientologist, and think the whole thing is a waste of one’s life, but some Independent Scientologists, if this subject is really worth it, should do a history.

At this point in the Scientology subject’s history, if the Independent Scientology movement is really real, some one of them ought become their own more traditional subject’s “historian”.

Official Scientology has not developed a real historian, Danny Sherman can’t be considered that, he’s not free to debate and really discuss even tech tech like even Scientologists haven’t ever been able to debate, except to their Cramming Officers, or in their own sessions or word clearing sessions when they are freer to give their tech opinions.

The rules of Scientology I found just don’t allow proper roles to develop around this subject, the Squirrel Field Auditor role that official Scientology doesn’t allow, is kind of who I as an atheist ex member consider a really real Scientologist who’s somewhat able to discuss Scientology from top to bottom in public, so long as the squirrel Independent Scientologist does NOT muzzle themselves by dodging and failing to discuss ever noon and cranny of Scientology. (Hubbard security rules, his anti verbal tech rules, add up to self censorship make the whole subject so difficult to really even fully define, since Scientologists can’t get over the Hubbard rules and theory about even talking about OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 freely in detail, and talk of the Xenu engram that resulted in Hubbard’s OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 being the “solution”, and on top, Hubbard himself still having a “body thetan” at the end of his life that he couldn’t rid himself of this lifetime, I’m still NOT seen any Scientologists even get up to discussing these final “case” aspects realistically within the whole Hubbard “tech” framework.)

BC Grads, and higher, the Class 8s, the Class 12s, who still believe, but where are these top level Scientologists?

No backwards looking simplified Scientologist who knows the tech top to bottom, who’ve really simplified it all into public language, and whose uncensored themselves, I’ve still not seen such a Scientologist emerge.

Hey Chuck, great points. Having been a Scientologist but no longer considering myself one, I can say that I didn’t think Scientology was a waste of my life, I think of it in similar terms as reading a book or attending a conference on something that interests me. As long as I can pick out the parts that interest me or can be useful for me, it’s nothing but a learning experience, even if 80% of the book or conference is stupid, a waste of time or downright false. I can still learn from anything. I believe that anyone who used to be a Scientologist but grew up and moved on, must have learned something from the experience. It’s life. There is always something to learn, even if the source of the “lessons” is imperfect, evil, untrue or whatever.

No part of life is a “waste” in my opinion. We are all here to learn and grow, and personally, I think that being in Scientology for a number of years taught me SO many things I don’t even know where to start… even though they are definitely not the things the church or LRH probably hoped I would learn from the “experience”… I learned that understanding and compassion are key, and lack thereof makes people and organizations miserable. I learned that no one has monopoly on the truth or wisdom – especially not Hubbard who expressed that very thought early on and then proceeded with an all-out attempt to monopolize truth and wisdom. I learned to think for myself – for real, not the Scientology version. I learned that it is incredibly easy to manipulate people, and how devastating effects it can lead to and how hard it is to undo the effects of such manipulation. Once of the first things I read in a Hubbard policy when I became a Scientologist was a little poem that I still remember:

It is ironic and interesting at the same time, that for whatever reason, one of the very first Hubbard policy letters I read when I first encountered Scientology, was this one:

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 SEPTEMBER 1978

An old poem which has been newly adapted as policy:

There is so much bad in the best of us
And so much good in the worst of us
That it ill behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

… and this is one (quoted by Hubbard, but originally from Robert Louis Stephenson) is one of the things that rings truest to me from everything I ever read in Scientology now, that I’m “out”.

I am not attacking Scientology, I’m not for it, I’m not against it. I experienced it and learned from the experience. I think that the BIGGEST problem with Scientology is that it IS a cult and people lose their judgement and part of their sanity if they become too infested by it. If it was just a benign subject that let people be as they wish and use any part of it the way they wanted, express their opinion freely about it, etc. I think many parts of it would be quite useful. I benefited greatly from auditing. I don’t think anyone benefited from being declared and turned against their own family members or followed by a private investigator – which are all part of the “Scientology experience”.

So, no regrets here. It’s just life – if your attitude towards life is positive and you can turn anything that happens to you into a learning experience, then ALL you do is learn, regardless if the subject of your current study is good, bad, evil or utterly irrelevant to anyone but you.

My best advice to anyone in regards to Scientology: treat it like it was a book which you can read it if you want, ignore if you want, consider some opinions of the author for what they are – opinions – see if there is anything in it that you can use, and meanwhile, don’t forget that it’s YOUR life and no one, not LRH, not David Miscavige or any other person is more important, more significant than you are in your own life. You create your own personal reality. If you have been in Scientology, you were part of it and created that very experience for yourself. Cheers, mate. It was you and me then, now it’s someone else doing what we used to. Life is awesome. Look forward, not back, and LIVE it. That’s my two cents.

When I was in London, back in the day, I went to a world class department store called, Harrods. Pretty famous actually, because they had everything and everything was beautiful – just about. I went there just before Christmas 1976 and it was a madhouse. People were rifling through bins, so hot and heavy that garments were flying up and out and littering the floor. One of these items were cashmere sweaters selling for 50-70 pounds apiece. That was approx $250-$300 back then and people were stepping over them on the way to something bigger and better.

Point being – people are fickle, people are strange. One person’s ideal scene is another’s nightmare – whose to say who’s right?

Most religions historically have been viewed as a package. You either believe or you don’t. You either have total faith or you don’t.

In my opinion religions started out as a means for people to answer questions about the unknown. About those things in life that may have frightened them or simply left them confused and uncertain. A religion – a gathering of like-minded people – found solace and to some degree answers in their new-found religions. Early on, agreement brought about some sense of security and comfort. Knowing there was a God, and that some form of communication with that being was possible, meant that some change in a person’s life was also possible. This brought about hope and with hope came the willingness to carry on. So religions have always had some benefit.

SCN was no different, but like all other religions, many of us got caught up in the marketing and selling of it. You couldn’t have SCN unless you bought the whole package. You got the nice shirt and trousers with the ill-fitting boxers and shoes, two-sizes too small.

Not everything in SCN made sense. Not everything written had the same value or the same prospects for change and improvement. But from KSW on, you bought everything or nothing. And in my opinion this is when we started to lose our ability to deal with SCN as a subject – like any other subject – where we could pick and choose according to need. We were stopped from differentiating and expressing our own free will. More and more we had to accept the bad with a dwindling amount of good, until finally there was no reason to continue. Which is what eventually pushed me out the door.

Most religions have had good and decent origins. Most intended to help and succor those who were feeling lost. History also tells us that most religions drifted away from their core values, driven to change by those who saw other uses for them – mostly selfish and having something to do with power and money.

I thought SCN was somehow immune to this “inevitable” process. I was wrong. But there was and is still some really good things to be had. Like some of those shoppers mentioned above, who found some great buys among the discards.

Lets give my words to this matter. I have studied the SHSBC at home (not on course) .. I have also studied the OEC at home .. so I have never delivered auditing to anyone .. I have everything studied for myself, and can only use it as knowingness about which I learned ..

Why I did this this way? Very simple, I was in desaster with my bridge, and lost confidence to myself in this way .. and tried to find out what went wrong. Was it me, or was it the church?

Cancel the SHSBC is stupid .. if you go through this material, you will find what went wrong and what was out of order or whatever .. you will learn on the SHSBC all why’s about the bridge and what the final goal of it is .. LRH did explain himself what is wrong in his books, and why auditors did make failures in his auditing

The only product of audiiting is to find the bypassed charge of the case .. if you get it, you are through, and all will be good .. if the SHSBC goes out .. nobody will ever know for what all this stuff is .. it will all be a lot of figure figure .. with no end .. but this a reversed bridge .. for sure ..

I read the deposition from start to finish. It was just embarrassing. Bert Deixler has (had?) a good reputation, and knows what he’s doing, but now he’s acting on the orders of Miscavige he’s just flushing it down the toilet one question at a time. Lack of predicate used just to try and catch Mike off-guard. Poor Babbitt giving up so much he eventually says ‘I’m just a pot plant’. The same questions over and over and over again in a blatant attempt to get the right soundbite for his client.

Oh, and Mike’s house is now ‘international headquarters’. I don’t know who he was trying to scare or impress with that one but it was hilarious.

COB determined that the BC was Dev-T and totally CI to GAT II. Indeed, COB originated that requiring anyone to listen to the 300 checksheet lectures on the BC got in the way of fundraising for Ideal Orgs and IAS statuses.

COB will soon release a streamlined and improved GAT II BC. This new version can be completed in as little as one week at Flag. A new GAT II BC uniform is required for students on the GAT II BC.

COB’s GAT II BC theory makes it clear that a being is only as big as his or her IAS status. This is COB’s epochal and monumental breakthrough and it promises that planetary clearing is finally within reach without having to listen to endless lectures.

In other happy news, We in RTC wish to point out that the Ideal Pacifica canteen is now serving an organic beef hamburger on a brioche bun for $7.95. Fries included.

Thanks for the update. Yesterday, it was good to hear that Craigslist has received the blessing of RTC.

Let Dave know that he needs to accelerate his Exit Plan. With the recent developments in Utah, he needs to get moving on the Conslidation Program. The cult needs to be transformed from his McDonalds knock-off ecclesiastical real estate scam to the new and improved Christian Science Reading Room model of non-existence, prior to his departure from the scene and going into exile with a mountain of cash.

All of a sudden I see all my overts and witholds against the Church so crystal clearly.

Sorry Indies, sorry, guys, farewell, nice knowin’ ‘ya, but a cognition of magnitude has just occurred. Gotta do my A to E, and then it’ll be Pacifica for me all the way up the Bridge, or all the way back down the Bridge, look, whatever, so long as I’m allowed in that canteen…seeya!

Mike, loved the deposition…you ended up bringing in things and raising questions (airplane, Shelley) that he didn’t intend. He was not controlling the deposition nearly as much as he thought he was. You were calm and he wasn’t. Awesome job! DM is not going to be happy, and it’s all his own fault.

One wonders, does Scientology ‘training/auditing/accepting’ actually spiritually blind people? while having them imagine they can spiritually see better than ever before (and better than anyone else)? It would certainly seem so.

Having read perhaps thousands of comments of ex-scientologists (and indie scientologists), the word sheeples comes up often. And this word refers to Scientologists of the highest levels of being, in Scientology, yes? Sea Org Staff? for example, yes?

How can an individual (times hundreds if not thousands) after years and years and years of dedication to Scientology principles and practices end up so pathetically unable to see the proverbial writing on the wall of life? How can one that ‘knows how to know’ not know they are being (and have been) conned out of their money, their families, their sanity and indeed, out of their very lives?

Is this, or was this undeniably remarkable sad state of spiritual affairs of human beings an accident?

Ron loved the SHSBC. He touted it so highly because: 1) He personally taught it at St. Hill, and 2) it was by far the most comprehensive and helpful training course Scientology had to offer. That is why Ron called SHSBC graduates “the dukes of the auditor elite”. I do not know if Ron really cared very much how well Scientology did after he passed on, but he certainly knew that Scientology would be in real trouble if the SHSBC was ever done away with or supplanted with something else. DM, this cannot be a proud day for you.

Mike I loved your deposition, you were brilliant. You know so well how to deal with these guys. He was trying to intimidate and annoy you and you turned it around. I could visualize him getting annoyed. Well done.

Off topic – in my neck of the woods the church is going all out with their commercial. For a week now it’s been playing during reruns of The King of Queens. LOL.

I agree with Tony Ortega on the thing of Deixler making Mike read the thing from their file. It makes the church and scientology look bad so they don’t gain anything there. It does make me happy to know so many people including myself aren’t having to do that shit anymore.

Y’all are really missing the main points here. There’s no freakin/ UPSIDE to the BC, folks. First of all, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, it takes way way WAY too long to do, I mean THOUSANDS of hours, freakin’ YEARS tro finish. And of course, THAT is … you guessed it, counter intention to spending time at work pulling in the moolah for your “bridge progress” and “third dynamic contribution,” You think Michael Chan and the freewinds speakers tell people to get on the freakin’ BRIEFING COURSE!!!! You think Duggan and Nancy and the gang do the BRIEFING COURSE!!! Geez, you’re just a freakin’ AUDITOR who has studied Scientology on the BC. You’re wasting YEARS of your life that could go to making MONEY, folks, MONEY!!! And the pathetic Sea Org members who spend their lives going to four musters a day at ASHO … some very nice people, I will admit … ever see chickens walking around? I see that where I now live sometimes. Even with their heads still on, we’re not talking REALLY smart animals here. ASHO staff. But some are very nice people … and some are just fucking idiots of course but such is life. (though I do admit that Kirstie Alley would probably benefit more from doing the BC than she does from going on talk shows either whining about how she can’t get laid anymore or how proud she is of not stuffing her gob for a few weeks. Can’t SOMEONE at CC just get her a date fercryinoutloud? Or just get some young SO guy to “do it for the team”? Give him a plaque a staff meeting or something.)

Joe P, you’re cracking me up. I do get tired of Kirstie Alley’s obsession with her weight which is at best, boring, and at worst pathetic. Kirstie, so you’re fat, so what? Who cares? Go on a diet and lose weight and get laid, or else just be fat – so what? Make up your mind, woman, because you are an entertainer and you’re also supposed to be an actor and a comedienne. There are a number of overweight, highly talented actors and entertainers. The late Shelley Winters comes to mind. Rosemary Clooney with that divine voice. Shelley Winters used to be a frequent guest on the Tonite Show with Carson. She was always witty, interesting and interestED, with amusing, frank stories about her work, exhusbands, etc and clever banter with Carson and the other guests. She had become very fat and sometimes she would allude to it briefly, make fun of herself a little, but she never harped on it and she was such a refreshing and interesting guest that you didn’t give a damn about her weight. But then, she was an amazing actress, a tremendous talent. Rosemary Clooney too had gotten heavy, but she was so warm and personable, so uptone if you please, that the audiences on Carson just loved her. Kirstie, forget about your weight, OK? Stop talking about it because you are wasting your life and your talent, and you are boring everyone. End of rant.

Have to add that Rosie Clooney is one of my all time favorites. In the second half of her career she became a truly great and swinging Jazz singer. Shelly Winters won two Oscars for her acting. BTW Kirstie is not currently fat. She’s back in shape … physically anyway.

Not only is the BC gone, but so are the Tech & OEC Vols – at least from PAC. Not sure about other places. (wonder if this means cramming is now defunct too) One of my convincing arguments last year to get someone out of the bubble (which I did successfully), was to ask them what LRH would think about his baby, the BC, being shut down.

Another course that is no longer being given is the Primary Rundown. Scientology has changed beyond recognition. It’s just incredible that folks still in the church could accept such travesties as combining Day and Foundation and replacing LA Org staff with SO members. And now this – not delivering the BC.

Indeed, it’s actual policy that it’s a suppressive act not to put the PRD at the beginning of all study.
The whole miscavige era has decimated everything resembling Scientology. It surely can’t be long until the whole kit and kapoodle collapses.

It’s been reassigned to the MAAs offices. There they slam in SP declares without telling you and then get the rest of the perps to disconnect from you which is the Key to forcing your Life’s Ethics in.

Mike Ellis takes over on the CPR and helps you reorient your life around the correct order of donation magnitude and then you both go out and eat pie. After a good belch, go to Walmart, get a box out of the trash and set up housekeeping.

Let’s count them up on our fingers: BC no longer taught, KTL and LOC no longer taught, OEC and FEBC no longer taught. Did I miss any? The disappearing act has been going on for many years. It is a slow-mo implosion of the church.

Cindy,
Not to forget the “Data Series Evaluator’s Course”. That was one of the first to go but maybe was
after the Primary RD disappeared.
Heaven forbid someone learns to think logically and spots what DM is brewing!
Greta

First, Let me explain. I am a “never in” so I don’t get all the A.S.H.O. or the title of this blog today S.H.S.B.C. .. Im not interested in scientologys alphabet soup to learn what all that is supposed to stand for or mean .. but I hope one day it wil be C.L.O.S.E.D ..

MaCarren-I im happy you are calling out the Kuglers. There are so many we all know [but can’t talk to] like them . Ryan Kugler is a kool-aid drinker too. I wish we all had a magic trick to bring them to their senses.I think most of those in have come to ignore or deny what they see and hear.

Without the BC there’s really no reason for ASHO to deliver any training at all since LA Org, CCI and all other Class V orgs already deliver the Academy levels & NED training. The only thing ASHO still has to offer is auditing those people who aren’t qualed to go to Flag. But if there’s no BC how is ASHO going to produce the needed pool of Interns for delivery? Apparently we are witnessing a slow-mo implosion. What are Bill Scrifvars and Jim Plett supposed to do now?

Funny, but I thought of Bill Skrifvars too. And Dick Orchu. What are these guys going to do now that there is no BC and no students? Maybe they’re supping Survival R/D. I wonder if these two veteran SO Course Sups ever twig on the out tech that is being run in on them and their courserooms? LRH in the PTS/SP Course warns that the tech division is the first place that an SP will attack and to watch out for that. So Bill, are you asleep at the wheel? Or just not-ising it all?

The Church has finally arrived into the “Stop” section of the Start-Change-Stop equation when everything is about decay, ruin, death and destruction. This one is a good example. Another one (which I’m not sure has dawned on any of the cool aid drinkers) is that the so called “church” just made the Preservation of the Tech project, which cost tens of millions of dollars, completely obsolete and useless. I’m not talking about having to re-preserve every new edition of Miscavigeology on metal plates in titanium boxes lest the survivors of a planetwide disaster find some non-golden-age-take-two unpure materials should they find the secret bunkers and had nothing better to do than try to audit each other, but they will have no e-meters to do so, because the Warehouse VIIs require an annual check-in via the internet with the IAS to work AT ALL. If the check-in doesn’t happen, the meter stops working. So in an imagined post-apocalyptic world, all of Scientology will be preserved for about a year, when the last Mark VIII Ultra E-meters will self destruct and faithful Scientologists will be in a real pickle: they will only have Mark VIII Ultra E-meters that no longer work (specifically designed to become $5000 paperweights without the internet connection to the IAS) and older E-meters that are no longer approved for auditing. So if they use them, they are “squirrels”, and if they don’t audit because they don’t want to be squirrels, they are, well, Scientologists who can’t do Scientology. What to do…?

ASHO just laid off 1/2 of their staff and made those who stayed work longer hours. Typical, Radio Shack behavior, but without the useful capacitors and transistors.

So who is doing the Briefing Course now? Given the recent clam Sea bOrg missions that stole people from Copenhagen and HAPI to send to Clearwater, why are different levels of the pyramid scam ‘stealing’ each others loyal minions to send to more expensive locations? I guess that someone higher up thinks their ‘stats’ are more important then the cash flow lower down the totem pole. That is a very short sighted business plan.

How many other ‘straight up and vertical’ layoffs are going to occur? Well anyone doing printing or video work at Hemet already knows where their jobs are going. I do have to wonder what will become of Hemet when the KCET work is done. Given the long period of ‘fund raising’ that will occur, the Hemet jobs are probably good for 4 or 5 years. Or until someone gets pissed off at being regged for the 4th time for some golden cross at the KCET site.

So MIscavige has successfully killed off ASHOD/F, since those orgs have no reason to exist without the SHSBC. And he has turned the other AOSHes, who at least have OT Levels up to V, into case handling clinics, half crippling them as well. And, best of all for him, the training Bridge ends at Grad V, no more know-it-all Class VIs and VIIIs to cry “squirrel” at all his altered tech. Another master stroke of destruction.

I don’t think your feelings are mixed at all Martin. I’m sorry you had to sit through (assuming you did the BC) all those confusing hours of tapes with so much useless data. What a waste of time that was (or could have been) for you. Saying the BC tapes only have a couple hours of worthwhile data sounds like something Miscavige would say.

Isn’t the briefing course where all the old training films are screened? Would the reluctance to show films populated with scientologists who were later declared SP’s have anything to do with taking the course off the menu?

“Science, Art, Religion, and Philosophy, every conceivable branch of knowledge, is but a means whereby he [the Theosophist] gains a glimpse of the Divine Wisdom that is the manifestation of the mind of God.”

People often believe that their spiritual eternity lies solely in the hands of religious leaders such as L. Ron Hubbard (and, to a lesser extent, David Miscavige). Relying on the beliefs and practices of but one religion, such as Scientology (or $cientology), actually deprives man of his quest for knowledge, in discovering the meaning of life. This is made even clearer through what we learn daily from the blogs of Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega.

If ASHO and ASHOUK are no longer delivering the BC, then I don’t understand how they can continue to call themselves “Saint Hill” organizations, because the delivery of the BC was once the factor that distinguished the first Saint Hill from all the other orgs! Am I missing something here?

Nope, Aquamarine, that is correct. Saint Hills=Briefing Course. Not now. So odd.
But for the Koolaiders out there, never fear. It will be back and probably released to a great deal of fanfare with all new GAT II Tech Vols – Just the way LRH intended.

If it gets re-released as a GAG III thing, there will be no more tapes of LRH talking. That will be replaced with “What Do You Do Drills” and Memorization and drilling to a wall. That will cut the time in half to do the BC. See how smart DM is? He saved you all that time.

” I don’t understand how they can continue to call themselves” ……….. (fill in the blank here folks)

How about ‘A CHURCH’ for starters. Do real churches treat their staff and parishioners ‘THAT WAY’? Tommy Davis says they don’t do that anymore. Marion Pouw said “we don’t do that …… anymore!”

Just like Dave doesn’t beat staff ……. anymore. We don’t demand money for nothing ….anymore? The hole does not exist …… anymore. You batshit crazy cultites only have one more anymore left and that will be $cientology does not exist ANYMORE!. Can’t Wait!!!..ANYMORE.

I’ve been hearing for some time the BC courseroom at AOSHUK is empty. I’ve got mixed feelings about this. On one hand it begs the obvious question – how in pete’s name can they make Class VIIIs when there is no Class VI course? Or should people go from Grad V straight to Class VIII – or what? I suppose it’s almost a redundant question seeing as there’s so few people this would affect anyway. Feelings of nostalgia for its loss though, are tempered by the knowledge that no more will have to sit through hundreds of hours of confused, often contradictory and downright misleading information littered with self-aggrandizing yarns, space opera and parables. I’m sure anything worthwhile in these tapes could be condensed down to an hour or two at most.

More case gain per $ is now routinely being achieved through the direct fleecing process. Make a direct donation for nothing in return and achieve the new tone level recently discovered by Dear Leader called Serenity of Bankruptcy.

EP = You can float around for days not giving a shit about who you owe your debts to or how you might ever pay them off.

Coop, I heard that if someone gives $75,000,000, they not only get to take over what’s left of the cult, but, they’re guaranteed to go to Target 2 and help fatso! Now you and I both know that that’s a bargain anyway you slice it!

The Duggans must be salivating over the concept of reaching Target 2 status ….. I think they only have 25 million left to complete it. I wonder if he will rise to Serenity of Bankruptcy on the tone scale or whether that will require dumping more cash into the cow? Either way, it’s exciting times for ole Bobby Poo.

Maybe peal the label off a cal-mag supa-dupa sized soda cup (remember those at Flag, mmm yummy. I can still taste the rising bile while practicing smiling and talking in front of my friends while sipping that battery acid concoction – I was so cool & standard back in the day) just fill in the details, send it in and receive your collectable up the bridge training coupon award certificate thingo. Collect the whole series and receive a specially framed personally computer authenticated auto-signature of COBs Class XII cert in a special edition peach colour glossy desk demountable pen set – looks great!
Begin your journey to Class XII today.

If I remember correctly and I think I do, LRH said in 1978 that the pre-requisite for becoming a NOT’s auditor was Class IV / OT III. BUT. . . .do you remember that this was before the release of New OT IV (the OT drug rundown) ? and then for people that got their NOT’s before they got their New OT IV came the NOT’s Drug Rundown? (because OT IV is a pre-requisite for OT V)? and the OT Drug Rundown is only taught on the Class VIII Course where it can be co-audited? There was a lot of changes in the way the Bridge was laid out right after LRH discovered the NOT’s phenomenon (i.e. the existence of dormant BT and clusters). A litle piece of tech right of the top of my head! 🙂

Good question. If one paid in advance for the BC and has money on account and the orgs are no longer delivering the BC, would that make getting a refund easier? Why not do a test case or a class action lawsuit on this? Good idea.

” if the org no longer can deliver it, would that make getting a refund easier?”

Are the two of you cooking up some new flavor of Kool Aide? The frickin Cult is not going to refund squat for any reason whatsoever to anyone, anytime in any org anywhere unless they are FORCED to under threat of exposure of crimes and unless you have successfully punched them in the face AKA “filed a suit which would result in one of the fearless eight testifying in a court of law OR requiring the Pope to take the stand”.

You’re a good witness Mike. In the moment. Listen to the question Don’t try to guess where the examiner is going. Just answer the question. Tell the truth.
I hope someday to visit World Headquarters. That would be cool.

Jose, you just jogged my memory. I was an OT co-auditing the FPRD back in the day. We went to town and audited many lists on each other. But AOLA got mad about this because they were not getting any income from us because we didn’t have to pay for the auditing and only paid for CS time. Many times the AO registrars tried to get us to give up on coauditing and come pay them money for our FPRD and NOTS. They considered it a cut GI line to them. So they put their heads together and came up with a new “RULE.” The new rule, not based on any LRH at all, was that no OTs could coaudit FPRD unless they were also a Class VIII auditor first. So that meant that even Class VI’s who had done the entire BC would not be allowed to coaudit. So then they could step right up to the registrar and pay for professional intensives in the AOLA HGC and thus AO and DM get the money. It’s all about the money and has been ever since DM took over.

Jose, it is WELL documented that LRH was an inveterate liar. But, be that as it may, my friend was one of the first US public to do C.C. at St. Hill and through 3 as soon as the Ship was delivering it. NO Cl VI cert ot course required. So, with THOSE facts you answer your own Q…

That’s great that you were there Jose. Really that’s cool stuff. So, what PL or HCOB are you referring to? Or LRH ED. I delivered Ad Courses for years and have NEVER ran across any such HCOB or PL. Just because a person points out a WELL documented fact about * doesn’t make them an OSA troll. But, that comment DOES make YOU a Thought Stopper*

For sure there is no SHSBC sinbce almost two décades, Mike. I observed that even in the 90s, almost nobody was getting the last level.
But the cult said that many people had paid… and were “coming soon”! wow!!

Are we to then assume training on the levels is now fading into nonexistence or at least pushed aside for
more “important” training cycles? I would be very surprised
to know that those still in that have done the Levels & BC do not have a slight glimmer of WTF. It is hard to imagine these folks having done the BC not considering it to have been a bright point in their lives. The friends made and camaraderie are hard to forget. Yes I understand all those who feel all of Scientology is BS causing people not to think logically etc etc but if you have not done (better yet not had the confront to do) the BC, I would say to you give it rest on this point as the BC means a lot to many people.

Training??? Auditing??? Oh, puleeeeeeeese! EVERYONE knows case gain comes from handing over huge sums of money. C’mon now! Get with the program: Take a second out on your home and then take a third out on your home. Cash in your children’s college funds. They don’t need no stinkin’ WOG education! And, their allowance? Hand it over! Case gain is bought, not earned! Wake up people!

This IS a disaster; I would have never thought of SHSBC disappearing, but there you have it.

Sometime I wonder, is scn going down so badly because it was started based on lies and personal purposes LRH may have had, or DM is getting to the last ends of his very well planed destruction of all Missions, Orgs, materials, etc?

Mike, seriously, how can the clams not realize that the clown dwarf has totally squirreled all of scientology? I mean, no more Briefing Course? One of the foundations of the cult? How do they justify this? Is the clown dwarf now infallible? What’s next? Everyone has to redo the Comm Course? The obviousness of the situation is slapping them in the face!

Yes, this is truly a stunner. In a true LRH Scientology sense an equivalent would be like saying Budweiser will no longer be brewing beer.
It’s been known around the traps for awhile now but the BC basically began a slow & horrible death as soon as miscavige first got his grubby little fingers on it.
All those different levels he introduced, heaps of them plus all the practicals at the end of the course, geezers, violates just about every study datum there is.
I think it’ll stun more of a select few than those who don’t know what it is but most of the people who never made it happen to do the course when it was more or less standard and available at staff rates will recognise the missed opportunity (OK OK please I’m only saying this to those that think there’s some merit to the tech if done correctly and yes I’m aware everyone has the right to state their opinion over and over ad nauseam until we all throw up and clap hands, I HEAR YOU!) but none the less it’s Hubbard’s Duke of Dukes Elite course and imho the only route to CL8 & 12. So I suppose for now and forever on Cof$ lines the alternate route to Clear has been buried as well. Who could CS it is a couple of years anyway. But really anyone who could sure would have run away from miscavige years ago.
The R6 Bank makes it’s getaway and sure won’t allow itself to be caught again – not a laughing matter if you understand what that stuff is about. I hope it remains alive somewhere as better than 50% of the tech is HOW you do it, not the data.
RIP SHSBC – although you’ll have the company of your murderer soon enough.

Yes, it is a stunner. I did the SHSBC and the Sr. SHSBC back 75-76 and it was booming, both Day and Fdn were producing about 99 graduates of the Sr. SHSBC each year I was there. The BC was the reason the ASHOs existed, it was their bread and butter.

There are places the tech on those courses still exists and is available to any who are interested. I received an email from an old BC friend of mine from those days just two days ago, and he is redoing his BC in the field. There are groups that still deliver LRH.

Hey Bob, Indeed, important it is carried on intact. There’s a place in ANZO I know where such expertise is passed on without pressure, money demands and results are expected and in Nth Idaho too I believe is a good delivery centre.
The sort of “can do” of a SHSBC grad is a rare and precious thing. How to make one is just as valuable.
Cheers

You’re not alone Yawn. I too think there is a lot of merit in the auditing tech when it is done with compassion and only for the benefit of the individual. There are hundreds of millions of dollars languishing in bank accounts as evidence that we have lots of company. If anyone doesn’t like it they can kiss my ass, and I’d probably like that.

I’m in shock too. The whole reason ASHO was there was to deliver the Briefing Course. Solely and only. Maybe the church’s justifier is that everyone has to re-train from bottom up on GAG II and so there is no one qualified to be on the BC and so we close it. That sounds plausible until you factor in one key fact: You didn’t have to be an interned Class IV to do the BC. In fact you didn’t have to be a trained auditor at all to do the BC. The only reqs were you had to be Clear and/or Class IV. Many had absolutely NO auditor training when they routed onto the BC but did so because they were Clear. Well, with DM cancelling everyone’s Clear status, he effectively made everyone out-qual for the BC. I think he took it out so that no one would see how much the church has shrunk when they look into the empty BC courserooms. Also as one commenter here stated, there are tapes with LRH’s voice saying things that absolutely contradict the tech as DM has altered it. People would listen to LRH and cog that DM has squirrelled the tech. That’s why there is no more BC as well as why there are no more Clears to route on to it and no more students to fill the chairs. The BC is dead. RIP.

In a year or two, some chucklehead in Scientology will pronounce.the absence of the SHSBC as the “why” for the contraction they are undergoing – and they’ll re-instate it, and rev up the hamster wheel all over again.

I did the SHSBC at ASHO in 1971 when the building was on Temple in Los Angeles. I can’t believe they stopped delivery of that course as that was what ASHO was primarily delivering. I wonder what now has happened to the class 7 course which used to deliver Power Processing only at ASHO. Is anyone training on the Power Processes?

I have been unable to resolve that requirement to join the SO in order to do the training to deliver Power. Apparently, you could train to deliver everything else, but not Power Processes, which sit right on the cusp of solo sections of R6EW, the Clearing course, and the OT levels. (?) Whatever, the whole structure seems to have fallen apart. I speculate that I’d never allow management personnel within 50 yards of the tech personnel, I haven’t done the OEC Course but my guess is it was originally set up to be that way, and the same goes for ethics personnel never having access to PC folders.

As you know Dean, back then when one did the BC they got Power and R6EW for free.
Miscavige just can’t conceive giving something away for free. His solution to this?
Stop delivering the BC…..I’m sure that is quite logical in his twisted universe.

Power was my absolute favourite of all the levels and grades. Power Plus blew me through the roof for many months. That, of course, was back in the 60s and 70s. I saw similar gain in other friends. And because there were such gains happening regularly, particularly personally empowering the pc, the grade had to go.

The BC had to die. There are a number of tapes that give the lie to Miscavige’s squirrelyness:

1. The meter at the time “could never be improved upon”.
2. Cases do not gain when audited over PTP’s. Therefore, any outer org trainees sent to St. Hill that arrive with PTP’s should be sent home.
3. Many discussions about F\N’s that give the lie to the “3 swing” interpretation of Miscavige and his myrmidons.
etc.

Mike I quickly scanned over Tonys blog this morning and I think I misunderstood what he meant. Reading it again I’m not sure if he was referring to a specific blog post when he says “If you read Rinder’s excellent blog today….”.
Maybe he just meant your blog in general.

We love you Mike. Your explanations and elucidations make Scientology at least partially understandable for those of us who have never been in.

I say partially because the mindset in the Church is pretty alien. Time and time again I end up having a WTF moment when something new to me is mentioned. And damn, it seems like that happens at least once a week.

I can see why Scientologists who decide to leave have problems decompressing. The world inside the Bubble differs so wildly from the world the rest of us live in, that sometimes I’m amazed anyone makes it out.

He could speed up the GAG III checksheet and your bridge progress by doing a straight dono cycle for your cert. Pay $10,000 and get your cert in the mail. Oh yes, you would need to attend graduation and drool on about how magnanimously wonderful the cycle was and how much case gain was achieved without ever having to go in session!

My God !!! I am shocked 🙂 When I was at ASHO, this was the Course to do !! the BC was the ASHO baby !! It was great seeing all those people on the BC, Auditing. I got most of my auditing in there. Shame on DM !!! Those staff members are sooo brainwashed they can’t see it. I was also brainwashed. Took me 1 year to change and come back into real life. Good they declared me LOL If not, I would still be connected to this BS and being a puppet.

The gullibility and/or cowardice of those still IN to buy/condone this. (I’m not talking about UTR when I say “IN”). Anyone IN over 15 years that are still IN have sold out as far as I’m concerned and are the crux of the problem.
Come on Ben Kugler, Brad Kugler, Todd Kugler. YOU KNOW!!!! Speak out and help end the madness permeating the church. You and people like you are contributing to the madness at this point. When it all comes a crashing down, I don’t want to hear, “I didn’t know.” I have lost my patience with the cowardice.

Mix two parts cognitive dissonance with one part cowardice and you have a dangerous brew with no known antidote. Consume at your own risk!

Available without charge at your Idle Morgues. Contact your local registrar for more information on how to destroy your life and those you care about most. This is a public service message from your friendly Cult.

McCarran, YOU nailed it! Anyone who is still left in drinking the KA has sold out and is part of the problem. I too have lost my patience with cowardice. They remind me of the Nazi officers who killed thousands of Jews in the Holocaust whose defense at the Nuremburg trials was, “I was following orders.” Think of the Karma these bastards will be enjoying for the next hundred lifetimes! And same goes for DM and the out integrity, cowardly Scns who remain in the church despite all the evidence around them.

Mike is right it is a blasphemy. And it is being done as well to see who if any’s thinking in the public this co-incides with. It co-incides with no one’s but here’s the “line plot”.

Anyone interested in doing the Briefing Course will have to go to Flag and Flag’s student’s points will become highest ever’s.

Briefing Course students can be recruited into the Sea Org and shipped out to former Briefing Course org’s that now specialize handling Purif public whose money they grab before their drugs wear off.

The Church of Scientology is not a religion, it’s like an old story half remembered. It is a money making group that doesn’t help anybody. Including itself. HBO Is about to point this out to 114,000,000 viewers. 🙂

Taking up your comment about the Documentary, Lawrence, what I’m really excited about is that this is going to air on HBO.

Scientologists don’t have to wait in line to see it at a theater (and have OSA take their picture and bust them for seeing it).

They don’t have to go on to the “Evil Internet” to view it.

Just like a magazine in the grocery store checkout line, they can leaf through it without the risk of getting busted. The HBO special will come right to their living rooms. Scientologists will give up just about anything “for their eternity”.

However, because HBO is so popular, they won’t risk missing their favorite episodes of Game of Thrones, Real Time with Bill Maher, Curb your Enthusiasm or Girls by cancelling their HBO service.

Still ins and people on the fence; find out for yourself and watch this. It might be a little too high of a gradient since it talks some smack about Ron, but become informed about what little David Miscavige is doing with YOUR hard-earned money that YOU GAVE for social betterment and “saving the planet”.

This isn’t some black propaganda campaign to “smear Scientology”. You’ll see actual proof of where your money goes. If it’s going to an improper place/use, don’t you want to know? We fight for so many causes in the world – no GMOs, busting governmental abuse of power, countless conspiracies.

What IF what they are saying is true? Who’s side would you be on? Little David Miscavige’s or would you be a true friend of Ron and insist that this little criminal step down?

What could COB be doing that is making people so angry? Trust me, it’s not expansion of true Scientology. Wanna start looking somewhere?

Also, standard tech/lectures aren’t supposed to be changed one bit. Why have these sections been taken out of these lectures? Why are Ron’s words missing? What would Ron say about this? Why hide information about Black Dianetics from people who are only using Dianetics/Scientology for good? WHO would not let people be informed about this booby trap to the tech?

The answer is up to you. Are we going to defend LRH and STANDARD tech, or let someone change it on the old man?

Important Quotes

If the org slumps during this transition period, don't engage in "fund raising"
or "selling postcards" or borrowing money. Just make more income with Scientology.
L Ron Hubbard From HCOPL URGENT ORG PROGRAMMING

"We own a tremendous amount of property. We own a tremendous amount of material and so forth, and it keeps growing.
But that’s not important. When buildings get important to us, for God sakes, some of you born revolutionists will you please blow up central headquarters".
L Ron Hubbard Lecture 31 Dec 1960

"Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed".- LRH from Personal Integrity

"It is necessary to happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe." Thomas Paine

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Communication is the universal solvent” - L Ron Hubbard

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” Thomas Paine

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." William Faulkner

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." Dalai Lama